In a serial of three illustrated videos, find out the principle of the synchrotron operation, information the lights it produces and uses, and also an approach to the techniques and applications available at SOLEIL.

This film offers to follow the path of the electrons from their production in the LINAC upon arrival into the storage ring where, having reached their cruising speed, they emit a very brilliant light.

An international team of French, Italian and Slovenian scientists have deciced to develop and new, more resistant king of coating for the bronze statues of our urban property. They came at SOLEIL, on the ANTARES beamline, to study their new coating in detail.

A study led on the PLEIADES beamline unravelled (part) of the mystery of ball lighting.

Since September 16th, 2013, SOLEIL has been authorized by the French Nuclear Safety Authority to study samples on the MARS beamline with radioactivity above exempt concentration limits. We are following the first experiments on such samples, carried out in collaboration with the CEA.

3 a.m. in the morning. A liver is transported under emergency conditions to the Paul Brousse hospital’s Hepatobiliary Centre in Villejuif, for transplantation. But before the organ can be transplanted, it is crucial to determine whether or not the liver is healthy...

Throughout the world, synchrotrons will have to adapt and improve their performances. Portrait of the next generation of storage rings, including the prospects for SOLEIL, given by Amor Nadji, Director of Sources and Accelerators at SOLEIL, on October 6th 2014.

On 12th June 2014, Sylvain Ravy, CRISTAL beamline manager at SOLEIL, gave a conference entitled “How did Fourier transform Crystallography”. Let’s go back on a fascinating and yet unknown story of this multidisciplinary science.

On 3rd June 2014, SOLEIL welcomed the second edition of the Science Break. More than a hundred of people came and shared the testimonies, experiences and results of 3 scientists from the synchrotron on the field of crystallography.

Each time, more and more users are invited to give their feedback on their time spent at SOLEIL. Eleven of then were selected for the 9th SOLEIL User's Meeting.